Vent: Neighborhood kids messed up new sidewalk

[Anonymous]

Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!

This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh the humanity!!!

Prayer circle for OPs sidewalk starts at 6 PM sharp.

I'll bring the candles

If the cement is still wet, I'm writing my name it.

Don't let the wax drip on the sidewalk, OP will have you drawn and quartered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazed at the people who think this is OK. I would 100% report to the police. We don't tolerate this in Virginia.

Really? I saw this all the time growing up in VA. It is a rite of passage type of thing.

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Anonymous wrote:If this were done on front of my house I would sue the parents.

For what? Please - I'd love to know what you'd sue the parents for?

My lawyers would come up with something, don't you worry.

My lawyer would laugh you out of his office.

LOL!!! Yup, it could be vandalism, but even that is a stretch.

Oh, where are the lawyers on this site that would be laughing at this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!

This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.

I really doubt that the Op is complaining about his/her own kid doing this. It sounds as though it was a group of kids that the Op doesn't know that well. If it is directly in front of Op's house I can see how that would be annoying and probably not something that Op will fondly look back on.

But...it is typical kid stuff. We all have that in our neighborhood to some degree. As long as the kids didn't go w-a-y overboard (and it does sound like they were borderline overboard) I would let it go.

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Anonymous wrote:And you wouldn't have done that, when you were 12?

Heck I did it when I was thirty.

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Anonymous wrote:HAHA LOL. Me and my friends did this 20+ years ago on some new cement by our house. I went back and it's still there. THE MEMORIES! Love.

Really? You drew across 30 feet of wet cement and you're proud of it?

NP

You really need to unclench.

You didn't answer the question. How much of the concrete did you damage?

Wrong poster, dear. I've never written in wet concrete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!

This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.

It's not the OP's kid.

I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.

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Anonymous wrote:If this were done on front of my house I would sue the parents.

For what? Please - I'd love to know what you'd sue the parents for?

My lawyers would come up with something, don't you worry.

You don't own the sidewalk. How can you sue for damage to something that you don't own?

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!

This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.

It's not the OP's kid.

I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.

In 99% of the area you don't own your sidewalk. I bet OP doesn't. I feel like there is a whiff of something else here - are the names that are carved in somehow different, ethnic, etc. that OP doesn't want to be associated with? This has got her way more riled up than should be normal.

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, is this really a big deal? The county replaced a section in front of my house a few years ago. My kids wrote their name in it. I LOVE seeing it everyday!

This is our forever home, unless something terrible happens and forces me to move. In 20-30 years, I'm really going to treasure that piece of sidewalk.

It's not the OP's kid.

I'd be mad too. You spend a zillion dollars to make your home look beautiful and a bunch of stupid kids can't keep their paws from carving in it. My parents would have been furious if I defaced someone else's property. Whether it's carving a name in it or spray painting it, it's damaging someone else's property. What is so hard to understand? They can carve up their mom's sidewalk all they want if they need to destroy something.

It's not OP's property. It's belongs to the county.

[Anonymous]

Here's what you do OP:

If you really want it to get replaced, under each kid's name you write "is a jerk" "wets his pants" "eats poop" or something of the sort. It has to be juvenile enough for plausible deniability but mean enough that the parents don't want it immortalized in concrete.

Then you can petition the county to fix it. The parents will sign on to make sure their kids keep off the concrete in the future. You get the pristine sidewalk you've always wanted.

Even if the county does nothing, at least you got back at those kids!

[Anonymous]

Unless it's vulgar, I would smile and think how happy the kids must be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what you do OP:

If you really want it to get replaced, under each kid's name you write "is a jerk" "wets his pants" "eats poop" or something of the sort. It has to be juvenile enough for plausible deniability but mean enough that the parents don't want it immortalized in concrete.

Then you can petition the county to fix it. The parents will sign on to make sure their kids keep off the concrete in the future. You get the pristine sidewalk you've always wanted.

Even if the county does nothing, at least you got back at those kids!

HA! That would be GREAT!